Ice-cream cutter or scraper.



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- ICE CREAM GUTTBR'OR SGRAPER.

APPLiUATION FILED JULY 10, 1903.

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UNITED STATES iatentcd March 8, 1904.

WILLIAM (J. BETTS, OF SEYMOUR, INDIANA.

ICEQCREAM CUTTER OR SCRAPEFL SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 753,843, dated March 8,- 1904 Application filed July 10 1903.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. BE'ITS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seymour,

, in the county of Jackson and State of Indiana,

have invented new and useful Improvements in Ice-Cream Cutters or Scrapers, of which the following is a specification.

The special object of the invention is to make a device whichmay be held within an ice-cream freezer at a suitable distance above the cream, so that the surplus cream which comes up on the mold or dipper may be scraped off and made to fall back into the freezer without sticking to the side thereofbr to the edge of the mold or dipper. I thus save cream, promote cleanliness, and lessen subsequent manual labor. p

Figure l is a plan View of a scraper in the freezer. Fig. 2 is an enlarged end view of the spring and scraper in section under the clampscrewyFig. 3, a fragmentary plan view of the fiat scraper.

In the drawings, Arepresents the flat spring whose outside presses against the inside of the freezer, so as to hold the knife in place.

B is the' wire or flexible flat cutter or scraper which goes across the inside of freezer above the cream. Its terminals are secured to the ends of the spring A, one end rigidly by a rivet wand the other end by a clamp-screw C, so as to be detachable or adjustable. The

screw is held in the loop a, of the bandspring A. Thus it willbe readily seen that the cutter or scraper goes straight across the interior of the freezer and forms the chord of a circle, thus leaving an open space between Through itself and the inside of the freezer.

this space passes the scrapings of cream to the cream below without sticking to the side of freezer or edge of the'mold or dipper. The 4 mold or dipper when it is raised from the cream in the freezer is drawn across the cutter or scraper. a

I am aware that United States Patent No. 433,090 shows a brush-wiper formed of a wire with avertical hook; that United States Patent No. 642,346 shows a wire with a spiral and bent at each end as a brush-wiper; also, that United States Patent No. 571,438 shows a compressor to squeeze them between spring-bars; 5 but the construction and purpose. of these is different from mine. My scraper is flexible to conform to the shape of mold or dipper.

' I am aware that neither a scraper nor a spring-holder is broadly new or patentable; but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is

A new article of manufacture consisting of the flat spring A and flexible flat'blade or scraper B, the ends of the latter being connected with those of the former,'to form the circumference of a space through which the mold or dipper may freely pass up and down in an ice-cream freezer as and for the purpose 5 described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM (J. BETTS.

Witnesses FRANK L. KRUWEE, A. C. BRANAMAN. 

